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| author | Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com> | 2011-05-06 22:59:59 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-05-08 12:28:30 -0700 |
| commit | 1020d08786c1413d488845f9175d01c0ea073a6c (patch) | |
| tree | 55723f1968df1c829cece4e5426314f85e5210db /Documentation | |
| parent | 6086ff65dfcf48237bdac6c64a85bef5d34d5b4e (diff) | |
| download | git-1020d08786c1413d488845f9175d01c0ea073a6c.tar.gz | |
Use a temporary index for git commit --interactive
Change the behaviour of git commit --interactive so that when you abort
the commit (by leaving the commit message empty) the index remains
unchanged.
Hitherto an aborted commit --interactive has added the selected hunks to
the index regardless of whether the commit succeeded or not.
Signed-off-by: Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-commit.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index d0534b8c05..ed50271aab 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ The content to be added can be specified in several ways: 5. by using the --interactive switch with the 'commit' command to decide one by one which files should be part of the commit, before finalizing the - operation. Currently, this is done by invoking 'git add --interactive'. + operation. Currently, this is done by invoking 'git add --interactive' + on a temporary index. The `--dry-run` option can be used to obtain a summary of what is included by any of the above for the next |